Datacenter Engineer iD- 9550

About the position

The Mobility lab team is responsible for the creation of new environments, as well as the operational support of existing ones. The team works closely with other maritime, and aircraft system datacenter engineers to build and support reliable, compliant, and operational labs that Viasat's developers, test teams and customers can use. This role is a hybrid work role but weekly onsite work is required. This role may require occasional travel, including international travel.

Responsibilities

  • Help build and maintain new mobility test and development labs for internal and external customers.
  • Build out and maintain the internal infrastructure and systems that provide the services the mobility labs are built.
  • Integrate with existing network and deployed systems and document the as-built procedures.
  • Work directly with other datacenter engineers to deploy systems.
  • Install and configure hardware (servers, switches, routers, PDUs) and software.
  • Run, label and dress cabling necessary for interconnected systems.
  • Perform Linux and Windows administration.
  • Implement security posturing and management.
  • Monitor and manage network systems.
  • Create and maintain diagrams, documentation, and guides related to lab infrastructure, setup, and processes.
  • Provide technical support to other teams, troubleshooting and diagnosing issues.
  • Effectively communicate issues to management and higher-level technical support.
  • Ensure accurate and timely reporting.
  • Perform other datacenter operations as needed.

Requirements

Nice-to-haves

  • Completed a degree in a technical subject (Engineering/Physics/Computing/Networking).
  • One or more related technical certifications (Linux+, Network+, Cisco or Juniper network certifications, AWS or similar).
  • Basic knowledge of commercial avionics systems (115v/400Hz, ARINC standards, A600 Connectors, Quadrax, trays).
  • Satellite/Wireless communications experience.
  • Scripting experience using Python, JavaScript, REST or equivalent language.
  • Server virtualization or AWS/Cloud experience.
  • Knowledge or experience with tools such as Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Docker.
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